The Steel Lady

The Steel Lady
The Steel Lady is a good movie about survival in the Arabian desert. Although it is not a war movie it has the action and military equipment found in one. Four part owners of a small oil company are exploring for oil in the years after the end of WW2. Their plane is caught in a severe desert sand storm and they must crash land.

They discover a flag on a German tank protruding out of a sand dune. They dig the tank out and fix it to use for their escape from the desert. One of the crew finds a treasure of jewels the Nazis stole from the Arabs, hidden inside the tank and he plots to keep it for himself.

Arabs attack the tank to retrieve the jewels while the other crew members do not understand why. There is a lot of action in the running battle. The story line unfolds nicely with the severity of life in the dessert intensifies the struggle.

Morality prevails in the end. All the bad guys get their just due. The bad guy on our side repents...

Silly plot, but highly enjoyable!
The plot of this little movie is pretty silly, and the characterizations of the Arabs is typically goofy for this period in movies.

But the cast is very good, the production qualities are fine for a B-movie, there are few really huge plot holes or outright technical impossibilities. (I thought German tanks ran on diesel fuel!) The plot has a nice mix of action and a little mystery.

If you take this movie for what it is you will enjoy it. In fact it is sufficiently fun that I'm keeping my copy on the shelf with the other DVD's that are keepers.

Steel Lady review
This is a very well done adventure/mystery that is probably missed by a lot of people! Rod Taylor and Tab Hunter do an exceptional job of acting and the plot is very interesting! Getting the old German tank running again to save their lives is a hoot! It's a picture well worth watching!

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